23 The pronouncement of Tyre:*+ Howl, YOU ships of Tarʹshish!+ for it has been despoiled from [being] a port,* from [being a place] to enter in.+ From the land of Kitʹtim*+ it has been revealed to them.

17 And they must raise up over you a dirge+ and say to you:

“‘“How you have perished, that used to be inhabited from the seas,*+ O praised city, who became a strong one in the sea,+ she and those inhabiting her, those who gave their terror to all the inhabitants [of the earth]!*

9 “And the kings+ of the earth who committed fornication with her and lived in shameless luxury will weep and beat themselves in grief over her,+ when they look at the smoke+ from the burning of her,

11 “Also, the traveling merchants+ of the earth are weeping and mourning over her,+ because there is no one to buy their full stock anymore,